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Three more jury presidents named for Cannes Lions 2012
Sun, 2012-02-05 08:01 - By
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The organisers of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity are pleased to announce the appointment of three more jury presidents for this year’s event taking place 17-23 June.
Cannes Lions launch 'Branded Content & Entertainment' category
Thu, 2012-01-19 08:29 - By
Setting the benchmark for creative excellence in communications, the International Festival of Creativity – Cannes Lions – will reward creativity in branded content & entertainment, defined as the creation of, or natural integration into, original content by a brand. Avi Savar, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Big Fuel, a full-service global social media marketing and communications company based in New York that takes brands from content to commerce, will chair the inaugural Branded Content & Entertainment Lions jury.
New Lynx Palm Award will honour best production company at Dubai Lynx
Tue, 2012-01-17 08:03 - By
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The Dubai International Advertising Festival, the leading awards for creative excellence in advertising and communications in the Middle East and North Africa, will this year introduce a new accolade to honour the most awarded production company – The Lynx Palm Award.
Eurobest 2011 announces final juries: Craft and Integrated
Mon, 2011-11-14 15:27 - By
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The Eurobest Advertising Festival, taking place from 28-30 November, has announced the last of its eight juries; Craft and Integrated. The jury members will come together in Lisbon to judge the best of European creativity and award the sought after Eurobest trophies.
Eric Schmidt named Cannes Lions 2011 Media Person of the Year
Sun, 2011-05-22 07:09 - By
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This year, The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is proud to honour Eric Schmidt, Google’s Executive Chairman, who since joining Google in 2001, has helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley start-up to a global leader in technology.
“Under Eric’s leadership, Google has truly changed the way people around the world access information on a daily basis,” comments Philip Thomas, Cannes Lions CEO. “He has helped build Google in an astonishingly short period of time into one of the world’s biggest advertising medium and one of the world’s most valuable brands. We are delighted to honour Eric with this award.”
Eric Schmidt says: “This award reflects the hard work of many people at Google working to develop new technologies to help advertisers thrive in the digital world.”
From 2001-2011, Eric served as Google’s Chief Executive Officer, overseeing the company’s technical and business strategy alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Under his leadership, Google
dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation.
Prior to joining Google, he was the Chairman and CEO of Novell and Chief Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Previously he served on the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
(PARC), Bell Laboratories and Zilog. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University as well as a master’s degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Eric is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council in the U.K. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a fellow in 2007. He also chairs the board of the New America Foundation, and since 2008 has been a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
He will be honoured during the Press, Cyber and Design Lions awards ceremony on the evening of Wednesday 22 June in the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France.
Cannes Lions delegates will have the opportunity to attend the Google seminar on Wednesday 22 June at which Eric will be speaking.
Previous recipients of the Media Person of the Year Award include, Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook; Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation; Sir Anthony O’Reilly, CEO of Independent News & Media; Tsuneo Watanabe, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings; Sumner Redstone, Chairman and CEO of Viacom and Gerald Levin, CEO of AOL Time Warner.
Cannes Lions delegates will have the opportunity to attend the Google seminar on Wednesday 22 June at which Eric will be speaking.
To register to attend the 58th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, please visit www.canneslions.com
Cannes Lions honours IKEA with Advertiser of the Year Award
Tue, 2011-05-17 06:42 - By
Cannes Creative Leaders Programme achieves notable success
Mon, 2011-04-18 17:54 - By
Dubai Lynx entries up 52%
Wed, 2011-03-23 16:41 - By
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The Dubai Lynx Awards, the premier awards celebrating creative excellence in MENA’s advertising and communications industry, has received a total of 2,068 entries from 21 countries, an overall increase of 52% versus last year. Entries have been submitted in 12 categories, including the newly launched Design category.
The top country participating is the UAE with 1048 entries, followed by Lebanon with 258 and then The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 187.
All entries will be judged by 28 top industry experts from around the world who will convene in Dubai at the weekend and will be led by Prasoon Joshi, Executive Chairman and Regional Executive Creative Director APAC of McCann Erickson (Film, Print, Outdoor, Radio, Craft and Integrated juries); Armin Jochum, Chief Creative Officer of Jung von Matt (Direct, Sales Promotion & Activation and Interactive jury); Mike Cooper, Worldwide CEO of PHD (Media jury) and Rodney Fitch, founder of Fitch (Design jury).
“To recognise and honour the best work is vital to agencies and clients alike, and gives inspiration and credit to all those involved as well as setting the creative benchmark moving forward. The high level of entries this year, including a great start for the new Design category, are an endorsement that The Dubai Lynx awards and festival, the largest and most respected in the MENA region, is the most important accolade to win and must attend event for the advertising and communications industry,” says Philip Thomas, CEO of Cannes Lions who with Motivate Publishing are joint organisers of the event.
The winners will be announced and honoured during the Dubai Lynx awards ceremony and dinner held on Wednesday evening, 30 March, at Madinat Jumeirah Arena in Dubai, which will be attended by over 1,400 industry peers.
Other awards to be revealed during the Awards Ceremony are Agency of the Year, Media Agency of the Year and Network of the Year. Coca-Cola Egypt will be honoured with the 2011 Advertiser of the Year and HH Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and CEO of Emirates Airline & Group, will be presented with the prestigious 2011 Dubai Lynx Advertising Person of the Year Award.
To attend the Dubai International Advertising Festival or the Dubai Lynx awards ceremony and dinner, please register online at www.dubailynx.com
Coca-Cola Egypt honoured with Dubai Lynx 2011 Advertiser of the Year Award
Wed, 2011-03-23 09:46 - By
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The prestigious Dubai Lynx Advertiser of the Year Award is presented to advertisers in the MENA region who have distinguished themselves for inspiring innovative marketing of their products and who embrace and encourage the creative work produced by their agencies.
YouTube and Cannes Lions launch 'Good Work' to match Creatives with non-profits
Sun, 2011-03-20 17:15 - By
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